Figure 10
Calculated isobaric heat capacity of gold at ambient pressure. Measured values reported in the literature are also plotted for comparison: open circles from Anderson et al. (1989); crosses from Barin & Knacke (1973) as reported by Yokoo et al. (2009); open triangles from Hultgren et al. (1973) as reported by Shim et al. (2002); and open squares from Touloukian et al. (1975) as reported by Tsuchiya (2003). The red solid line represents our calculated real crystal model and the dashed black line indicates our perfect crystal model; for temperatures below about 800 K the heat capacity curves calculated from the two models are effectively identical. |